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IFSH Takes Part in OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Event
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is a forum for exchange among parliamentarians of the OSCE participating States. The Assembly also sends election observers to participating States. Since February…
Autonomous Weapon Systems: Webinar at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)
Where do we stand and where do we go from here? Under this guiding question, the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) hosted a webinar on autonomous weapon systems (AWS) on…
Armed forces in the age of global environmental change
PhD Fellow Anselm Vogler published a new contribution in the New Security Beat blog. The blog entry outlines his recently published literature review on ecologically relevant military activities. This…
Former US Congressmen and -women visit IFSH
IFSH was one of the first stops on their trip to Germany: Six former American members of Congress learned about the work of the Hamburg Peace Research Institute and exchanged ideas with students of…
Presentation in Washington D.C.: International book project on Germany's nuclear weapons policy in the 21st century
On March 26, the anthology "Germany and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende", edited by Dr. Ulrich Kühn, was presented during a panel discussion at the Carnegie…
The Unintended Consequences of the 'Zeitenwende' - New Article for the IPS Journal
The German debate on how to deal with a revisionist Russia revolves around questions of how to better organise deterrence, defence and support for Ukraine. This is important to protect Ukraine and to…
Nuclear turnaround in Germany? Interview with Dr. Ulrich Kühn
How realistic are the discussions about a European nuclear deterrent? Can Germany play a bridging role in the debate? In an interview in the newsletter of the European Network of Independent…
Behavioral Arms Control and East Asia
Amid escalating political and military tensions between China and the United States, there is a pressing need to explore innovative approaches. In their comment for the Journal for Peace and Nuclear…
Germany Debates Nuclear Weapons, Again. But Now it’s Different
Germany is once again debating nuclear deterrence. This has happened on various occasions before: in 2016 when Donald Trump came into office, in 2018 when Donald Trump almost wrecked the NATO summit,…
From Climate Conflicts to Environmental Peacebuilding
Research has long studied whether climate change exacerbates the risks of violent conflict. Another research stream focuses on environmental peacebuilding as a way to prevent and resolve conflicts. A…